Save democracy by destroying it? Calling out the authors of chaos.

Sohrab Ahmari calls out authors fueling the present menace.

Over the past four years, credentialed academics and public intellectuals published a mountain of books and articles warning of rising authoritarianism and even fascism in the United States—and offering guides on how to resist this political menace. “Save democracy” books became something of a cottage industry: If you had what publishers call a “platform” and relevant scholarly authority, you were a fool not to try your hand at the genre.

The titles revealed the high stakes: The People vs. Democracy, The Twilight of Democracy, How Fascism Works, On Tyranny, The Road to Unfreedom, How Democracies Die. And on and on. Only now are we beginning to witness the damage wrought by these irresponsible exercises in middlebrow hysteria, as radicalized activists set fire to American cities on the belief that they are locked in an existential battle with the forces of political darkness.

This past weekend, hard-left activists in Portland, Oregon, allegedly shot dead a man wearing a “Patriot Prayer” hat. Antifa types were soon celebrating his death on social media. In Washington during the Republican National Convention, leftist mobs accosted and in some cases assaulted GOP lawmakers; the unblinking rage on display in the video footage is terrifying.

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Why is it that authors who write such books seem so eager to jump on the politically correct bandwagon? Is it because they want to curry favour and thus increase their prestige? Is it to foment the circumstances whereby they can profit from other people's misery? Could it be they are closet capitalists acting like woke activists - which means they are hypocrites - so they can rob others of their welfare cash and student loans? All of the above?

Welcome to the age of the secular apocalypse: climate apocalypse; health apocalypse; social apocalypse; sexual apocalypse; identity apocalypse; political apocalypse; economic apocalypse; [insert title of latest] apocalypse.

A true prophet has something to say to the impostors.

Jeremiah 28:15-17

And Jeremiah the prophet said to the prophet Hanani′ah, “Listen, Hanani′ah, the Lord has not sent you, and you have made this people trust in a lie. Therefore thus says the Lord: ‘Behold, I will remove you from the face of the earth. This very year you shall die, because you have uttered rebellion against the Lord.’”

In that same year, in the seventh month, the prophet Hanani′ah died.